Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Mich., and the author of Flash Feedback: Responding to Student Writing Better and Faster – Without Burning Out (published by Corwin Press). His ...

It’s tough to get a room full of writers to agree on anything—the best wine, the best Shakespeare play, the best time of day to work. Perhaps the only belief that today’s writers share is that to ...

Freshman year, after dining hall acquaintances have exhausted standard small talk on the weather —“Winter’s coming” —and last Saturday’s happenings —“You will not believe how late I went to bed” ...

In Lessons From A Street-Wise Professor, Ramon Ricker advises college students to take charge of their career: set bold goals and develop a clear plan for achieving them. Take advantage of your unique ...

Revision implies a “re-seeing” of your text, not just a quick clean up. To effectively revise, or re-see, writers should focus on rhetorical concerns that have significant impact on the text. For ...

When submitting your writing for publication in a journal, the best you can often hope for is to receive a “revise and resubmit” request from the editor. This means the reviewers and editor found ...

To revise your writing, you need to see it through the eyes of a reader — a stranger to the text instead of the creator. Here’s one recipe for revising your work. Have you missed a Coffee Break Course ...

Experts say this is not the time to study new topics but to revise key formats, themes, and grammar rules. Careful reading of questions, clarity in writing, and proper time management can help ...

When it comes to writing projects, finishing your first draft is only half the battle. Then you need to revise and edit. Revising is a reconsideration of what you’re saying as a whole, and where ...

Tara Bogozan is an English teacher and AVID Elective educator. She has taught both middle and high school in the Atlanta metro area for over 17 years. You can follow her @mrs_tbogo on Twitter: ...